WASHINGTON  When Mark Takano ran unsuccessfully for Congress twice in the early 1990s, his opponents tried to smear him as a homosexual liberal and a nutzoid. One of them even had pink fliers printed that asked, A Congressman for Riverside ... Or San Francisco?

When he ran again last year, he won by almost 20 points. Flash forward 18 years, Mr. Takano said recently, and the very macho building tradesmen are behind me. Im getting pictures with them in their hard hats.

For decades, the words gay and Congress were usually seen together only in stories of scandal and shame: an arrest after an illicit proposition in an airport bathroom, accusations of trawling for sex on a phone service. When Gerry E. Studds came out 30 years ago, the first congressman to do so, it was only after an affair with a 17-year-old Congressional page was revealed.

But in the 113th Congress there are six openly gay or bisexual members in the House  a small but tangible sign that their presence at the highest levels of government is no longer something only whispered about. The Senate has its first lesbian, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin. The lawmakers partners, no longer relegated to the shadows or introduced generically as friends, stood beside them on the House floor when they were sworn in this month. Their adopted children are attending Congressional retreats.

I realize that Boehner, as Speaker of the House, may have had little choice in taking this photo, but this photo of newly elected New York Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (right) and his "family" posing with Boehner (left) sure isn't going to improve Boehner's image among conservative Republicans.

I'd like to know what other Republican speakers dating back to Newt Gingrich did with swearing-in photos of homosexual Congressmen and their "spouses." If Boehner had to do this, fine, rules are rules. If not, let's ask why he did.

Again, for everyone reading this thread, Maloney is **NOT** a Republican. That's a horrible typo I made in the title and I don't know how I did it. I meant to say, “GOP Speaker Boehner poses with married Democrat homosexual Congressman”

It looks like Rep. Maloney’s opponent, while described as a “Tea Party” conservative, was not a conservative on social issues including homosexuality. The race between Rep. Maloney and former GOP Rep. Nan Haworth was described as follows in a pro-gay publication:

Where LGBT issues are concerned, Maloney said his goal was full equality under federal law.” He said immediate priorities include repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, achieving marriage equality through the courts or other means, and passage of the Employment Non-discrimination Act.

Maloney received endorsements from the Human Rights Campaign and the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. He also had the backing of President Clinton and Governor Andrew Cuomo, who led the successful push for marriage equality legislation in the state last year.

Hayworth counted endorsements from the Log Cabin Republicans, GOProud, and American Unity PAC, the group founded by billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer to support pro-equality Republicans in House contests. She also received the endorsement of New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who vetoed marriage equality legislation this year and supports civil unions.

One of the reasons I think people abort instead of putting children up for adoption is because your child could be adopted by these mental patients. Somewhere out there are two sets of parents who probably have no idea as to what their children are exposed to.

Red China won’t let US homos adopt Chinese kids (they rightly still regard it as a mental illness); Russia’s ban on US adoptions is probably really rooted in the same concern.

I don’t know any “gay couples”, and I never will. My children will never play with “their” children, because I will not plant the seed of anti-Christian liberalism in them. Whereas before people were shunned for unacceptable behavior by the larger society, now it is on us as individuals to do that to protect our loved ones.

Damned straight; while I often bemoan the death of marriage itself in the US, this attack on Judeo-Christian values minimizes the sting. Serious Christians (I can’t speak for other denominations) should be married in the manner of William Wallace (”Braveheart”); a private ceremony with no state involvement at all. Then two sodomites can do whatever they please (besides the sick stuff they already do to each other).

Ladies and gentlemen, that is what the ideal progressive family of the future looks like. These people truly are the lowest of the low.

And screw Boehner. He doesn’t have to smile as if he approves. My God, this speaker is a leech. It’s unforgivable his backroom pandering and submission, and that it took him so long to realize Obama’s intentions. The worst representative we could have. He cannot reform and try to be more conservative. He needs to be deposed. 2014 has to be a TOTAL, ORGANIZED, HOSTILE takeover of the party. We have to cut the RINOs at the kneecaps and throw them out. I don’t care what the media, or the so-called Manchurian conservative strategists on Fox say about big tents. Idiots like Boehner have no place in the future conservative movement. I am so sick of hearing about him

I assume Walker got elected on a statewide ballot and this guy is in a liberal district.
In Indiana we got Mike Pence as governor and Black Muslim Andre Carson as rep from Indianapolis central district.

For decades, the words gay and Congress were usually seen together only in stories of scandal and shame: an arrest after an illicit proposition in an airport bathroom, accusations of trawling for sex on a phone service. When Gerry E. Studds came out 30 years ago, the first congressman to do so, it was only after an affair with a 17-year-old Congressional page was revealed.

Corruption, a result of mental disorder -once hidden, now out of the shadows -remains corruption.

Only the depraved leftist mind celebrates this open corruption as 'progress'.

You guys don’t get it. The real winners here are the Human Rights Council, Lesbian and Gay Victory Fund, GLAAD, GLSEN and the thousands of other rich, well-funded and incessantly lobbying organizations.

Power is power. These organizatrions want power and money, and they are getting it by using the ‘poor victim’ meme, the ‘civili rights’ meme and the usual ‘more intelligent and sophisticated people support gay rights’ schtik.

they lobby incessantly, the are active 24/7 in taking over mainstream churches (and therefore mainstream church property), now they have fastened on what they see as a money pile in the Armed Services. These organizations colonize. They take over organizations from the top and put their own in well-paid position, lobby for yet more money from the federal government.

they try to keep the people’s attention on *gay individuals* but *indivudals* are merely stalking horses.

They arrrange for really goodlooking gays and lesbians to be in front of the camera. My guess is that the big organizations pay for clothes and make-up sessions. they now pretty well own television and academia. But they want more, always more.

Power is power. Groups organize for power and some groups will get it anyway they can.

Tammy Baldwin has only been elected statewide once, in November 2012, when Scott Walker was not on the ballot (Walker was elected in November 2012 and won the recall vote in the spring or summer of 2012). Believe me, Baldwin won with a much different electorate than Walker did.

Well, what can one say after watching the political class of elitist morons pedestalizing this wretched gaggle of anus worshippers?

They don’t care that this bunch represents the lowest form of human life due to the ways they achieve their filthy orgasms. They don’t care that in their ‘lovemaking’ they ingest fecal matter, then wonder why they contract a disease that is incurable and usually fatal?

They don’t care that most, if not all, are truly insane a condition brought about by having to look at their disgraced face (disgraced only in their eyes it would seem) and wonder about their sordid lives. Proof of their insanity is in reviewing the lives of the infamous serial killers. All were homosexuals.

They don’t care that in their abetting this disgraceful and sinful style of sexual relations that they themselves are committing a mortal sin by their apparent aquiescing.

Boner, with a defecation-eating grin on his face, is smiling because he know that as soon as the cameras stop rolling he can shove a round white thing in his mouth.

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posted on 01/27/2013 6:45:11 AM PST
by IbJensen
(Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)

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